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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Islamic charities versus the US in battle for Pakistan aid AFP - Thursday, August 12 Send IM Story Print Islamic charities versus the US in battle for Pakistan aid PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) - – When torrential monsoon rains flooded Pakistan, sparking the country's worst-ever humanitarian crisis, hardline Islamic charities moved fast. Faster than the government. Banned in Pakistan and on a UN terror list, Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) is one of a number of Islamic organisations that have been highly visible in the battle to help provide relief to millions of survivors. Filling a void created by the perceived failure of the civilian government to mobilise, fears are growing in the United States that such charities are using soft power to propagate extremism in the nuclear-armed state. Pakistan's Taliban have now urged the government to reject American aid in favour of 20 million dollars of Taliban aid. There was no indication that the militia can or will pay, but the battle for hearts and minds has been drawn. Related article: Pakistan Taliban urge rejection of foreign flood aid "We are providing food, clothes, medicines, tents, utensils, 5,000 rupees (60 dollars) cash to each family," said Atique Chohan, spokesman for JuD in the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where the Taliban are active. "So far we have helped 250,000 people," he told AFP at a camp run by JuD's newly set up welfare organisation Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation in the district of Nowshehra, where dozens of bearded volunteers dished out food. A truck drove up loaded with food, clothes, medicine and toys for victims, none of whom care that JuD chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed is considered a terrorist in India and by the United Nations. He founded Laskhar-e-Taiba, the Kashmiri militant group outlawed in Pakistan and blamed for the 2008 Mumbai attacks that left 166 people dead. Vitriol has been reserved for President Asif Ali Zardari, who returned home only this week from London, and the government -- whose cash-strapped departments have been accused of infighting. "Local religious organisations like JuD help more," said 25-year-old taxi driver Ghulam Haider, whose home was swept away in Nowshehra. Villages along the motorway from Peshawar to Islamabad are inundated and women are seen wading through knee-high water. "The government gave us tents and nothing else. All goods here have been supplied by affluent and ordinary citizens. We're getting help from private organisations," said Jahanas Khan, 50, who was uprooted from his village. The United States has increased its flood aid to 55 million dollars and the United Nations is to launch an international appeal for several hundred million dollars, saying that six million people are depend on help to survive. Anthony Cordesman, who has advised the Obama administration on Afghanistan and Pakistan, said the floods represent "a major opportunity" for Islamist groups to win further influence among people denied government services. "If we have to deal with a radicalised Pakistan, that raises the threat that is posed by terrorism by several orders of magnitude," said Cordesman, an expert from the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. Concerned about extremism, Washington is trying to engage more fully with Pakistan, which President Barack Obama has put on the frontline of the war against Al-Qaeda and considers crucial to ending the conflict in Afghanistan. Aid from the United States and international non-governmental organisations (NGOs) can have a tremendous impact, said Cordesman, but can also go unnoticed by people on the ground, who have no idea where it came from. Pakistani analyst Talat Masood said the situation exposed the extent to which the government was trapped between extremists and the military, which has ruled Pakistan for more than half its existence. "It is unable to meet the challenge... It is a strange situation. Dominance of the military or dominance of militancy." Ashley Tellis, a south Asia security expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, told AFP that it was a recurring pattern. "I think they (the military) will eventually show that they can respond, but they've certainly lost the battle of being seen as the first responder and that is in a sense the most important part of the public relations battle." In a conference call with journalists, Anne Patterson, the US ambassador to Islamabad, minimised the influence extremist groups had in providing aid. Back at the JuD camp in Peshawar, civil servant Aurangzeb Khan, 43, dropped money into a transparent glass donation box, half filled with banknotes. "I would have given it to the government had it done a good job," he said. 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